Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student, was exploring the woods in Montignac in Dordogne, southern France, when his dog named ...

As the coins seemed too valuable to be used in everyday transactions, archaeologists suspect that they may have been used as ...

Ancient life-sized rock art found in northern Arabia reveals how early people marked water, routes, and resources across the ...

Cookbook author Lucinda Scala Quinn writes about her transformative trip from the oldest city in Italy to a cliffside hotel ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

Verona’s ancient Roman Arena will receive a modern facelift and become more accessible to people with disabilities ahead of ...

Evidence of a hearth dating to about 415,000 years ago Researchers think that Neanderthals were responsible Discovery made near the village of Barnham in Suffolk Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of ancient humans igniting fires: a 400,000-year-old open-air hearth buried in an old clay pit in southern England. The study, published in the journal ...

Archaeologists in Northern Ireland went out seeking a 400-year-old castle — and ended up finding things that are much older, thanks to the little kids working with them. In an October statement, Queen ...

If someone hands you a large, spiral seashell, chances are that your instinct will drive you to hold it up to your ear. Thousands of years ago, however, prehistoric communities in modern-day Spain ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa—Brandon Bradshaw eyed a manhole cover from different angles before bending his lanky frame to spray-paint a series of arcs in slashing strokes on the street around it. After about 30 ...